COLLABORATION MONSTERS

February 23rd to March 2nd

Before there was competition, there was code-sharing.

Billions of years ago, in warm tidal pools, proto-life did something strange. Instead of hoarding genetic innovations, organisms shared their code promiscuously, recombining freely with whatever drifted by. This radical openness wasn't naïve—it was the only strategy that worked. Complex life emerged not despite this sharing, but because of it.

We are at a similar threshold.

The coordination technologies we've been building—copyfair, trust graphs, deliberative tooling, quadratic funding, computational governance mechanisms, hyperstition markets—are mature enough to actually compose something new. Something that self-organizes. Something that self-funds. Something that might actually out-cooperate the competitive monsters currently consolidating power.

Everyone wants to be an incubator now. But incubators just spin up new startups. What if the more interesting move is entanglement? Taking what already exists—protocols, teams, ideas—and recomposing them into emergent forms that none of us could build alone?

This is not a conference. It's not a hackathon.

It's a week of deliberate entanglement.

What we're doing:

We're gathering a small group of builders, systems thinkers, and weirdly protopian people to explore—and possibly instantiate—Collaboration Monsters: cybernetic organisms that coordinate capital, talent, and IP toward shared ends without requiring everyone to merge into the same company.

No forced outcomes. No mandatory deliverables. If something gets built, it's because it wants to exist.

But we do have building blocks.

And we have a question: Can collaboration be structured to beat competition at its own game?

There will be unconference sessions. There will be unscheduled time. There will probably be a party or two.

The values we're orienting around:

Collaboration as competitive advantage. Not as ideology. As strategy.

Openness as precondition for trust. The infrastructure has to be legible to work.

Interdependency as pathway to sovereignty. The network makes its members stronger, not weaker.

Who this is for:

You know who you are.

You're building governance infrastructure, or funding mechanisms, or coordination tools—and you've noticed that the really hard problem isn't technical. It's getting good-faith actors to actually pool resources without getting captured, diluted, or bored.

You're tired of competing with people who should be collaborators. You're curious whether the game theory can actually be changed.

You've read this far and you're already rearranging your calendar.

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